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Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help...

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Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and social...

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Erving GoffmanAsylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

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I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being simi...

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The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from indivi...

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I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

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My mother smiled. "I knew my baby wasn't like that."I looked at her. "Like what?""Like those awful p...

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To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.